Titus 1:14

and may not throw themselves into Jewish fables, and into the precepts of men who hate the truth.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

In Context

13And this testimony is true. Therefore chide them sharply; that they may be sound in the faith,

15For to the pure, every thing is pure; but to them who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their understanding is defiled, and their conscience.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:9And in vain they pay me homage, while they teach doctrines that are the precepts of men.

Galatians 4:9But now, since ye have known God, or rather, have been known by God, ye turn yourselves again to the weak and beggarly elements, and wish again to be under them!

1 Timothy 1:4and not to throw themselves into fables and stories about genealogies, of which there is no end, which produce contention rather than edification in the faith of God.

Hebrews 12:25Beware, therefore, lest ye refuse to hear him who speaketh with you. For if they escaped not, who refused to hear him who spake with them on the earth, how much more shall we not, if we refuse to hear him who speaketh with us from heaven?

Matthew Henry on Titus 1:7-16

The Qualifications of a Bishop; The Necessity of Sharp Reproof. ( a. d. 66.) 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. 7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; 8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort… Read the whole commentary →

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